Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they will take to prevent Health Education England decommissioning five training posts for clinical pharmacologists.

Health Education England (HEE) have conducted an in-depth nation-wide review of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CPT).

The report has been discussed with the representatives from each specialty at the Royal College of Physicians Small Specialty Review Workshop to capture their input. HEE Deans have also considered all the proposals from an expert clinical perspective and came to a collective agreement of the final recommendations.

Following this work, CPT will be incorporated into Dual Certificate of Completion of Training programmes and become a ‘credential’ for many others. This will embed CPT across all specialties and deliver much greater system expertise to support the research agenda.